Bernie’s initials. Coincidence?

That is the question. Does BS refer to Senator Bernie Sanders platform that he is running for president on, or does it refer to the famous slang used as a synonym for nonsense? It’s an honest question. One that will no doubt make some of you mad, but that’s okay with me. Because I freely welcome anyone to prove to me that there isn’t a difference between the two.

It seems like there is a lot of BS supporters who love this shameful redistribution platform that he is running on. Both of these candidates are using code words, like democratic socialism instead of socialism, progressive instead of liberal. They think that we are all fooled by this misleading use of semantics. There are some that are fooled by it. But not everyone, and certainly not this guy. So let me clear it up.

Progressive means liberal. Liberal means progressive. Honestly, this point is not so important, because both candidates running are either. They’re both socialists. About the only thing they disagree on are the numbers. BS wants to tax you like he enjoys it,and this includes everyone — yes, even you middle class people. Hillary wants to do the same, she just doesn’t want to tax as much as BS, and she wants you to believe that not only does she not enjoy it, she’s not even actually doing it. Because she’s a liar. It’s what the Clinton’s do. If you don’t believe that, I have some very high quality toilet water I’d like to sell you that will make you urinate silver dollars. It’s a no-brainer buy, because it pays for itself after only 2–3 trips to the bathroom.

What really matters is this DS v. socialism thing. It’s quite simple. DS is socialism with a ballot box. That’s it. We can vote for them, or not vote for them. Don’t give me this garbage about how there is still this belief in free market principles. This is a glaring contradiction in logic. Because instituting policies that the government will institute in efforts to try to compete with the free markets does not stimulate fair free market competition. Being able to pass legislation restricting their free market competitors is a pretty big limitation and competitive advantage over free market enterprises. You cannot expect an Olympic gold medalist free style swimmer to repeat 4 years later in the next Olympic competition if you make it illegal for him to ever get wet. Because, you know, he’s so mean to the water as he practices slicing through it. We need to protect the indignant pool water!!!!!

Before you start harping on me about how I am cruel and absent-hearted because I don’t want free universal healthcare for all: “Don’t you want to help and provide care for people who need it?” Of course I do! I just don’t think the government can do it. Sorry. You had eight years of ObamaCare. How’d that work out? It didn’t. Premiums skyrocketed, as predicted. Trading one problem (insurance companies must provide health care, even for the 400 lb guy who has diabetes, 3 prior heart attacks, smokes, and loves to skydive) for another problem (great, now they can be covered, but now they can’t afford it). I had ObamaCare for awhile. It’s was around 2–3 years ago and my premium $78/mth, which only covered half my doctor’s visit costs and sometimes covered my prescription drugs when I needed to be prescribed something. I checked just before this years deadline, just out of curiosity, to see what my premiums would be now. They cheapest I had available to me was $218/mth for the same coverage.

Don’t even try to give me some BS about how Bernie Sanders would be able to provide a better healthcare plan than Obama. Based on their political careers (only counting Obama’s time in the U.S. senate), Obama had just a significant list of bill-passing accomplishments as BS, despite Obama only having a U.S. Senate career of roughly 2 years. I find it confusing that even the most severe BS supporters would think that BS can do what Obama couldn’t do. Obama was your guy. It didn’t work. Which, may suggest that your liberal leaders of choice don’t really know how to come up with a workable government healthcare program, or what the lower/middle class can afford. Based on how this was enacted with the Affordable Care Act, they don’t seem to know what the definition of ‘affordable’ is either.

Besides, I’m the one who cares about people who actually need help, not you. You’re not doing anything about it. You’re passing the responsibility off to a bunch of politicians to solve the problem. Your caring attitude wants politicians to go and tax the people you don’t know to retrieve revenue even though they have a well-known history of being very fiscally irresponsible with our money.

Give it a rest.

It’s a facile argument. Completely facile. You think by pulling a voting lever, that it absolves you of responsibilities and makes you a caring, loving empathizer or radical fighter for those who are less fortunate. (And yes, I know we don’t pull levers anymore.) BS! No, you’re not. Are you paying attention? What group of politicians are you counting on to do this on your fake empathetic behalf? Name one. Name just one. Save your energy, because you can’t do it. Yet, you scream at everyone else for not caring like you do because you refuse to acknowledge that the government screws things up, not makes things better. So, instead of telling them to take a hike and mind their own business, you just enabled something that will eventually be forced upon you and/or force you to pay down the road in increased taxes.

By the way, do you donate? Have you written your church about raising awareness and funding towards one of these causes you want to help? Well, have you? I mean, I admit, it would take more effort and time to do this than casting a vote, but at least you can be fruitfully involved in the solution to the problem. Instead of passing on the responsibility to a politician. And make NO MISTAKE. That is EXACTLY what you are doing.

So unless you have, and let’s be honest about it, most haven’t, donated considerably your time and income to a charity cause, you don’t really need to be screaming at someone for not caring like you do. What you’re mad about — what we are mad at each other about, quite frankly — is the ways of which we should go about being charitable. My view is, if you truly wanna help, stop passing the buck onto someone else in DC to do it for you. Because their track records don’t accomplish what you think it does. Despite what liberal loony media source you pick to prescribe to in order justify your narrative.

The thing I take away from the democratic debate tonight is that Bernie reminds me a lot of Al Gore. In the sense that both of their best political attribute’s is that they’re pretty good debaters. That doesn’t translate very well at all to being a good political leader, obviously. But BS is definitely doing to the probable democratic nominee — Hillary — what the liberal media does to the GOP, provide unsolicited criticism that the other side can use as ammo. I just can’t tell if BS is a good debater, or if Hillary is just a horrible candidate for POTUS. I think the answer lies somewhere in the middle.

Neither should be our next POTUS. This notion is just unrealistic, irresponsible, silly, and scary. It’s proof that the democrats have moved way, way, way far to the left, and that’s very bad for us — the American citizen.

In fact, it’s BS.

Coincidence? I think not.

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